With 100% English Ancestry, I thought it might be really difficult to trace my ancestors back in England from Canada. Only my mother, her father and his mother were born in Canada. This Blog will talk about researching my English ancestors from Canada but also the ancestors of our son in law whose families stretch back far into Colonial French Canada. My one name study of Blake and of Pincombe also dominate my blog these days.

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Challenge - List all of your ancestors living in Canada in 1867

Name Date of Arrival Place of Birth Location in 1867
(Middlesex County)

My one little Canadian line includes my mother, her father (born in 1872) and his mother Grace (Gray) Pincombe born in 1839 in London Township, Middlesex County as my only Canadian born ancestors. Now in 2017 with Canada 150 years of age I do have surprisingly few Canadian born ancestors although I am nearly 72 years of age and my father was born in England in 1904. Long generations in my families as my father was 41 when I was born and my mother's father was 44 when she was born.

Two of my ancestors who also lived in Canada were deceased by 1867 (the parents of Mary (Routledge) Gray) Thomas Routledge and his wife Elizabeth (Routledge) Routledge. They emigrated to Canada in the fall of 1818 from Bewcastle, Cumberland, England.